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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 Supercharge your image editing using the latest features and techniques in Photoshop Elements

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800204201
Length 544 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Robin Nichols Robin Nichols
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Photoshop Elements Features Overview 2. Chapter 2: Setting Up Photoshop Elements from Scratch FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: The Basics of Image Editing 4. Chapter 4: Image Makeover 5. Chapter 5: Easy Creative Projects 6. Chapter 6: Advanced Techniques – Layers and Masking 7. Chapter 7: Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text 8. Chapter 8: Advanced Drawing and Painting Techniques 9. Chapter 9: Exporting the Finished Work 10. Chapter 10: Best Practices 11. Chapter 11: Feature Appendix 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Beauty retouching

In this section, I will show you how to correct the tones, imperfections, and look of a simple beauty shot, step by step. In this process, you'll learn how to use the Clone Stamp tool, one of the original and incredibly powerful retouching tools in Photoshop Elements, as well as the amazing Burn, Dodge, and Sponge brush tools (but mostly Dodge and Sponge) that I consider to be among the many unsung heroes of this application.

The Clone Stamp tool explained

The Clone Stamp tool is one of the original retouching tools handed down from Adobe Photoshop in the years before it was Photoshop Creative Cloud (CC).

Essentially, this is nothing more than a copy-and-paste tool. If any of you have had the opportunity to copy and paste a paragraph of text from one part of a Word document to another part, you'll be able to use this tool. It's exactly the same principle, but because you are also dealing with color, texture, and tone in an image, the process...

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